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Friday, 16 February 2018

My Little Book of Love by Gemma

I have created a little accordion book to share with you all today. I love how cute and colourful it turned out with those little splashes of orange against the red, and it had so much space inside for little pictures and messages for the special person in my life. 





How to


1- Spread Distress Oxides on your craft mat and spray with water
2- Press a large sheet of cardstock into the ink puddles. Drying between layers keep going until the card is mostly covered and you are happy with the look.


3- Using the same colours stamp over the top with different stamps and stencils.


4- Add extra details by stamping over the top with black and white acrylic paints.


5- Cut the cardstock into strips and score them to create the valley and mountain folds, and glue them together.


6- Cut two pieces of kraft card for the front and back covers and ink the edges
7- Decorate the covers by cutting white card to fit the covers and inking them with Distress Oxides.


8- Stamp some hearts onto leftover bits from the large sheet of cardstock you created for the inside and cut them out
9- Stamp out some text on kraft card and then glue all the elements together, add some string for the closure.

Gemma



Saturday, 16 December 2017

Star Cards by Gemma

 I decided to make my own Christmas cards again this year, but instead of making the odd one for a specific person and decided to make a batch of cards so I could also donate some to my son's school fair. 

These were easy to replicate and work through systematically and I just changed colours when I got too bored.


After I cut cardstock down to fit my card blanks, I used a repositionable spray to hold in place stars I cut by hand, these acted as a mask and were removed at the end. Over the top, I sponged different shades of green paint.


I then stamped over the top with orange and white paint using background stamps.


The last layer before removing the stars was to stamp using a calligraphy mat and brown ink.


To finish I doodled around the start and the card with a black pen.


Thank you for popping by

Gemma